Chile Poets Death

Chile Poets Death

FILE – In this Oct. 21, 1971 file photo, Pablo Neruda, poet and then Chilean ambassador to France, talks with reporters in Paris after being awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature. Neruda and his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende, died almost simultaneously under suspicious circumstances in the chaos that followed the country’s 1973 military coup. Now Chile’s Communist Party is calling for the exhumation of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s body to see if he was poisoned, as many have long suspected, including his driver and personal secretary. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File)